Words associated with old age?

Question

There's this grammar exercise in my summer reading packet with a chart. I need 5 nouns, 5 verbs, 5 adjectives, and 5 adverbs that have to do with old age or old people. x_x weird, I know. The examples they gave were experience, contented, volunteer (? I guess they mean at a nursing home), and slowly. I already have memories, stories, wrinkle, forgetful, white, and care.

Feel free to just write any words that come to mind. :P

Answer 1

you can seperate them into those catagories:

wrinkled

gray

brittle

glasses

loving

grandparents

death

caring

veins

surgery

cancer

Answer 2

grey-beard , ancient, oldster, senior,  

Answer 3

nouns: hag, codger, dotard, wheelchair, diabetes

verbs: cough, hobble, depend, sleep, forget

adjectives: debilitated, anile, senile, senescent, infirm

adverbs: slowly, pitiably, irritably, incoherently, desperately

Answer 4

Ageism.  Can you imagine that question being asked about females or blacks?  And here I thought our schools bent over backwards to be politically correct!

Edit.  Ageism. And if your assignment does not intrinsically intend that, the answers on either side of mine most explicitly do!

Answer 5

grumpy

stubborn

ornery

cantankerous

curmudgeonly

Wow, I guess I don't have very good experiences with the elderly.

Answer 6

Withered

hard of hearing

loss of memory

alheimerzs

withered

talkative

Answer 7

elder, elderly, ancient, arthritic, alzheimers, mature, obsolete, antiquated, senile